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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samir.zg:
hey.

i have a tmobile g2 and i used btdag's guide for rooting it. seeing i tried to simple procedure and failed, i resorted to the goldcard method. it took me only 3 hours xD.

the reason it took me so long was the wrong drivers. when i reviewed the guide i tried the drivers mentioned there and it work. oddly enough, stock drivers that came with the g2 were said to be for g1 magic. the gold card method works flawlessly and now i have a rooted hero with amon_ra's recovery and custom rom.

btdag, mate, thanks for the guide. helped a lot.

oh and yeah...the "downgrade" was actually an upgrade seeing i had an even older rom on my hero (bought 6 weeks ago). stock rom was android 1.5 (ancient :D)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buddn07:
Thanks btdag, that revised goldcard tutorial worked a treat! I now have 2.73.4705.5 installed and can play properly!

The problem I had was the fastboot driver not being installed hence not connecting to the exe file upon the reboot. After installing the correct driver for that the process worked a treat.

As a side note, I couldn't connect to htc sync after changing the driver but it wasn't needed.

Thanks for all your help. Got a "buy me a beer" link?

Nath
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
Glad to have two positive responses to the revised guide.

@buddin - i also can't connect to htc sync at the moment, i'm wondering whether its because of my rom but maybe it is the software/driver, i'll look into it further.

I don't have a "buy me a beer" link cause I have only re-written other peoples work. Thanks for the praise though :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rophaq:
i had the same problem about the htc syncr for weeks, it doesn't syncronise , i found that if uncheck USB debugging, and pull down the notification bar check the syncro and then open HTC syncro then it syncronises.

i think it something to do with, when ADB is setup and working somehow it cancels the HTC syncro, but who needs HTC syncro when you got ADB

i find HTC syncro useless comparing it to ADB. except from sync contacts and calendar ,that about it, nothing more. thanks to Btdag with his so made easy to follow guides and the all the devs for doing what HTC could not do.

try it guys, i may be wrong !!.:)

cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tids2k:
Hello .

Posting a tutorial on how to create a dump out of your stock rom, in case you delete some apps or modify some settings.

ALRIGHT LETS START:

STEP ONE:

Alright, so you want to make a backup of your phone software, but dont know what to do. Its simple, download the package the Android SDK from google and copy it to C:\ drive. Once you have download it, make sure you have Java installed in your system or else it will not work. After everything is done, open the program and install these two packages:

1. Android SDK Tools, revision 6

2. USB Driver package, revision3 ([COLOR="Red"IMP: Its important that the USB driver installed shows up as Composite Android Debug Device, else it wont work. ][/COLOR]

What Android SDK ?? Read about it here: [url]http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html[/url]

Why Android SDK ? Because: it has the [COLOR="red"]android debug shell[/COLOR] which you require before communicating with your android phone. So download it ! From here:

STEP TWO:

Download Busybox from here : http://rapidshare.com/files/407238531/busybox What is Busybox ?? Read about it here: http://www.busybox.net/

MD5 Signature: C5B76280434EEF49310AD8F1810B10B2

STEP THREE:

One you have downloaded busybox, copy it to the C:\ drive of your computer and then follow the next step. The next step is to open the Command Prompt ( type cmd in the Run prompt ) if using Vista right click on "Run as Administrator".

Assuming you are the root of C:\

Type: C:\cd android-sdk-windows

-> then

Type: C:\android-sdk-windows\ cd tools

-> if you have android debug shell and USB drivers properly installed

Type: adb devices

Now your device will show up as a binary number .. Success ! if it doesn't show up you need to install the drivers again or something else is wrong.

STEP FOUR:

Now once your device shows up, we will need to download the busybox from the computer to the phone. Since we can write anything in the /data/local portion of the android system we will copy the busybox file to the android device.

Type: adb push busybox /data/local/busybox

Once it has been copied to your device issue this command.

Type: adb shell This coomand is issued to go to your mobile's terminal where you can issue commands internally to the phone.

--> then

Type: cd /sdcard This command is given inorder to go to the sdcard ( i.e the internal storage of your phone )

--> then

Type: chmod 755 /data/local/busybox This command is issued to set user -rwxrwxr-x permissions to the file.

--> then

Finally, issue this command.

Type: /data/local/busybox tar cvf Samsung.tar /system This command is given to copy and tar the system folder where all the stock applications and programs are and to create a dump of that system folder.

STEP FIVE:

Job Done !!

The Samsung.tar file can be copied to the computer now. Have fun.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
this is perfect, as i want to create a dump of my original ROM
[Galaxy S I9000 General] navmanyeah:
A dump is simply a backup of your original ROM right?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionTC:
thats good news if it is indeed a a backup of the stock firmware.

i want to back up my warranty firmware! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tids2k:
it is only a backup of your stock apps and driver if so however it doesnt convert the files into a flashable rom version.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sunwee:
is there a way for us to backup the firmware?? (not just stock apps)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] droidwi:
So this is not a tutorial of how you back up your stock rom but how you back up your stock apps and stock drivers?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Unimaginative:
Correct. We most likely won't be able to actually perform a complete backup until Nandroid works on the handset.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] supercurio:
Too bad, the title was very promising but what you show is just an backup archive of the system.

BTW, there is no guarantee that restoring it will produce a usable phone, because kernel, datas, modem baseband etc won't be restored too !

But this can be useful to restore some file after a mistake done on /system files.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tids2k:
im working on creating a stock rom ... may be some happy results and happy faces. who knows . keep sticked ! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tids2k:
uploading dump again .. please wait.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rchawla9:
So, Can i just select this dump in Odin and it will recover to stock firmware. Quite confused here.

The file size is 275 megs , so is it only for apps? Have you flashed with this dump. Nice work so far. THanks.

Edit: Just realised the dump option in Odin is for dumping my rom , not loading one.

So stuck with this until Samsung update. Huh!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ian_Cog:
Is this the same procedure as making a backup /efs?

I've been searching the forum for hours and this is the only thing I could find that looked anything like it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Plinn:
This won't work

No, no and no !!

This procedure will not backup your stock ROM.

A complete rom consists in:

- a primary bootloader.

- a secondary bootloader.

- an initrd image with the kernel.

- a rootfs (the /system partition).

- an efs partition.

- a binary radio firmware.

There is no known method to backup all the flash partitions and transform them into proper files that can be reflashed with Odin or Heimdall.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kalpik:
+1.. The thread is misleading.. This doesn't accomplish anything! You really think people in the "Android Development" section don't know about tar?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MCOGW:
Did anyone already managed to get the built-in dump function from Odin working?

With Odin v1.3 there was the possibility to decide whether to dump AP RAM or AP NAND (followed by an ID).

With Odin v1.52 you can't choose this anymore. It will only dump AP NAND.

But my first attempts were unfortunately not very promising :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lgkahn:
i got a samsung bd-c5500 to be able to stream from my phone and vice versa... neither work..

the player can see the phone and browse the videos directory and i can start playing and it plays for a few seconds then freezes up and eventually minutes later jumps to a different video...

on the flipside the phone does not show the blue ray player .. i guess you cannot stream in that direction?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lgkahn:
updates firmware on dvd player still no go..

can play music or images from phone just all videos freeze will experiement with diff. formats.. but the same videos play on phone...

as a side note at least the c5500 does play my blu ray burned disked on red laser disks ..
[HD2 General] marty41:
hi guys

i took some pics at a family wedding and since upgrading ROM i don't see them anymore :(

so they must have saved to phone not card . is there any way i can get them back

please help

tia
[HD2 General] ozmoran:
you can check your phone memory location using file explorer go to device, my documents, they should be in my Pictures.

Another way is go to Camera tab and press Album (left corner) this will give an overview of what is stored on your device and Storage card check each one

I suggest also going into your camera options and changing the storage option back to storage card
[HD2 General] alabij:
If you flashed a ROM then all prior data is technically unrecoverable. Sorry! ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA!!!!
[HD2 General] ozmoran:
Oops I missed that you had upgraded your ROM bugger

You could try a data recovery software search google there are lots of freeware

Run the program choose your SD card and see if it finds any JPEG files

I have done this before and was successful

Good Luck
[HD2 General] marty41:
thanks but the photos must have been on the phone all the other photos are still on the card , can you run recovery software on the phone itself

cheers

marty
[HD2 General] marty41:
Ok i've found tons of software to recover from the card but none to recover from the phone itself does anyone know if any exists or a way to see the phone with pc software cos only the card shows up

thanks in advance

marty
[HD2 General] zelendel:
I hate to tell you this but once you flash a rom it erases everything on the phone and rewrites it so those pics are gone.
[HD2 General] lude219:
There's no such thing as a photo recovery software for a flash ROM.:rolleyes:

I'm sorry for your lost, but once you flash a different ROM, everything is wiped clean. It happens to the best of us, OP. I had similar things happen on my Diamond. Just remember to go through your checklist of the things you need to backup/save before you update the ROM.
[HD2 General] marty41:
Ok strange things

i ran recovery software on the card and found photo's taken on the correct date,

recovered them to pc, can see a thumb nail of 1 which is the wedding but none open , anyone know good recovery software ? i've used kroll ontrack recovery pro

seems flashing the rom did do something to the card (i think)

note to self "always take out card when flashing "

thanks for all help

i live in hope

marty
[HD2 General] lude219:
You wouldn't happen to move the HTC album cache to the SD card, did you?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] epitaphromance:
ill post the location of the framework-res.apk drawables and stock app apks to edit for those of you interested in theming.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
I appreciate the effort but isn't this almost the same from android central by gbhil?

Sent from my HERO200
[Hero CDMA Android Development] epitaphromance:
Wouldnt know. Die hard xda member. Im sure im not the only one that checks this site only. Im just trying to do my part. We need devs and themers with creative ideas. This is the one of the first few steps toward those interested in learning.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gdaupert:
Thank You!!!!!!!

WELL DONE SIR!!!!! Thank you for posting a good repo link for froyo!!!!!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] myth_mn:
Isn't android central a different website?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
Yes, I was thinking if he took it from there to give credit. But the effort is appreciated and not trying to start a problem.

Sent from my HERO200
[Hero CDMA Android Development] epitaphromance:
Made this because of all the errors i ran into and gathered all my sources of research of linux commands like changing your $PATH and installing java after my machine wouldnt find it in the repository, or not being able to get repo installed. Im just trying to help. I would have sourced gbhil if i took it from there. And this isnt a college essay, work cited pages arent necessary, its a courtesy out of respect. Besides... my sources where from blogs and most didnt have anything to do with android. Just throwin that out there. ©
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
no problem. i appreciate the work, I'm gonna give it a shot at some piont when I get some time to install ubuntu.

not doubting you didn't do the work, it was only fresh in my mind because i literally looked at it yesterday. thanks again for the info gathering.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] epitaphromance:
Welcome :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] hexskrew:
Just hope your patient between builds... or at least the first build unless you have a real killer machine. Tried it on my laptop (1.8ghz dual core amd)... 2hrs and had to ctrl+c cause I had to go to bed...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
Just wanted to say that this also works on linux mint kde 8 (also known as user friendly linux) it is taking forever though as posted :( good write-up. oh by the f ubuntu. :D just saying
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jschill31:
Hello,

Not sure if you follow this thread or not anymore but I get an error I was hoping someone could help me with? When I run the last "make" commange I get this error:

Checking build tools versions...

************************************************************

You are attempting to build with the incorrect version

of java.

Your version is: java version "1.6.0_20".

The correct version is: 1.5.

Please follow the machine setup instructions at

http://source.android.com/download

************************************************************

build/core/main.mk:117: *** stop. Stop.

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Assuming you've installed an openjdk-6-jdk package, you can override the normal build restriction of Java 5 by editing the file build/core/main.mk and changing the Java version test to match against "1.6" instead of "1.5". You'll need to do it in two places, once for java and once for javac. I never had to do this to build Cyanogenmod, but you may need to for AOSP.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jschill31:
Decad3nce, thanks for posting so fast. The funny thing is I figured it out within 5 minutes of posting but got sucked in to finalizing my source code that I am now just getting back to the post. There are several here in this forum that really help out and you are one of them. I am just now getting brave enough to start cooking but catch on fast. Can't wait to see what you, nfinite and beezy do to the wildfire port!:)
[Droid X General] grdm:
Just wonder guys, I know my X is supposed to be a beast of a phone, but my Incredible seemed faster and more responsive.

I dont know if I am doing something wrong. Here's what I did:

Re-loaded most of my apps once I loaded on MyBackupPro, the SD card in the phone is the one I took out of the Incredible.

Now the phone kind of chugs along at times, more so than my Inc ever did.

I even have Task Killer Pro killing the MotoBlur apps since I am not using it, I know I know taskillers are 50/50 shot, but I like them.

Anyway, if there is anything I have done or am doing that may be slowing the thing down, let me know please and I will try it.

This thing is supposed to be a quick behemoth, so why is it stalling and chugging when I even try to open the app drawer?

Please any help would be great, thanks.
[Droid X General] WiseManWhite:
Many people are having this problem, including myself. You might want to go into Launcher Pro's setting and turn on keep in memory under general settings. The Launcher Pro forms also mentioned turning the memory usage preset to very low. I haven't tried that last thing though.
[Droid X General] gmenfan83:
go into menu>preferences>advanced and set all your scrolling and opening speeds up some to make transitions faster......also i know you say you like them but i would ditch the task killer...just another task running!;)
[Droid Eris General] adorablepuppy:
FIXED! http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7205853&postcount=9

Hi. I rooted my v3 leak Eris (with the one that seems to work for everyone).

Then I nand backup it with RA Eris 1.6.2 to save my RUU. Then I installed Evil Eris on it. Didn't like it, restored my backup of RUU. Then I tried out Kaos' Froyo, worked ok, went back to RUU again afterward. Then I installed v22 Kaos' Froyo on it, worked better than the v21, but I wanted to go back to RUU again. I forgot to wipe Dalvik and system before performing the restore and now I get an error. E: Can't Read MISC: (No space left on device)

Then I wiped everything and tried to reflash thinking it would help. But I'm still getting the error.

I even wiped and repartitioned SD card. Nothing has helped.

What am I doing wrong?
[Droid Eris General] loki154:
How did you repartition your sd card? with Amon_ra?
[Droid Eris General] Hungry Man:
Reformat sd card as Fat32 imo and just wipe everythingggggg lol
[Droid Eris General] adorablepuppy:
Yes, I did it with RA.
[Droid Eris General] loki154:
How did you set it up? did you make the whole card a fat32 partition?
[Droid Eris General] adorablepuppy:
No, it asked me to set swap / ext2 partitions, so I did.
[Droid Eris General] adorablepuppy:
I am repartitioning card through RA to have only FAT32 partition.

I wiped everything.

Right now I'm placing the nand backup on my card.

I'll let you know how this goes.

edit: No change in behaviour after repartitioning, wiping, restoring nand backup.

Still has the error and still doesn't boot.

Edit:

Attempting to flash Froyo again.

Edit:

Froyo was a no. still getting the error, still no booting.
[Droid Eris General] adorablepuppy:
I just wanted to update everyone on this.

I've fixed it.

Download the attached misc.zip and extract the misc.img to your android-sdk tools folder.

Open up a command line (Start -> Run -> cmd, or cmd in the search bar for Vista and 7 users)

cd to your tools folder, easiest way is to type cd in the prompt, then drag the folder to the command prompt and hit enter.

Next:

adb push misc.img /data/local/misc.img
adb shell flash_image misc /data/local/misc.img

You'll get about 5 lines of crazy text after you hit enter to that last one. Reboot.

It's all good.
[Droid Eris General] adorablepuppy:
It should also be noted that I originally attempted to boot Froyo (as that is what I had flashed at the time) and the logo for Froyo came up.

It showed the logo forever (my assumption is that it was setting up the initial system.), so I restored my RUU to it and it booted into RUU just fine.
[Droid Eris General] tlevash:
Same error, not working for me.
[Droid Eris General] computerfreek:
This still works !!! It worked for me I had been flashing a ton of ROMS and i got this error "e:can't read misc" I did misc.img and it's good to go. Thanks
[Droid Eris General] DraginMagik:
what is in the zip?

what is in the image? is it generic or Eris specific? i'm getting these errors on my EVO.
[Droid Eris General] vasiaeva:
I got same on my evo to.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xephrey:
Ive read through dozens of threads asking this very question. Is there anyway to avoid having all of your internal memory sucked up by the great unknown? Im running defrost with all my apps installed on the microSD card.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Don't think this is possible because some application data is partially stored in the phone in /data/data/* too. Nothing moves /data/data to SD card, because this would result in instability and generally poor performance. You could move the app and dalvik-cache to SD with less trouble, but /data/data is buggy, so that stays on the phone.

Download Cache cleaner like CacheCleaner or CacheMate from the Marketplace, this will free up some space for you.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xephrey:
Thanks for the tip!

Freed up about 4 MBs. Hmm... Maybe I've adopted Android a wee bit too soon. Figured they'd have something as fundamental as this solved by now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
It is a common misconception that this is somehow Androids "fault".

Quite simply - it isn't. It is the hardware manufacturers who are not building enough physical storage into the device. There's absolutely no reason, other than cost, why someone couldn't build a phone with more memory available for apps etc - in fact, the Dell Streak has 2gb space for apps which is likely to be more than enough.

Regards,

Dve
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xephrey:
Good point. I was too quick to stack all the blame on Android. What would be SUPER cool is a phone with dual MicroSD slots. That way, one could be dedicated to apps and one to mounting, unmounting / whatever.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] str4vag:
Can we repartition the mtd like the g1 users can?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7061471#post7061471

cause i think for those who are not using sense ui, there is a lot of space unused on the system partition that can be transfered to data partition for our apps.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] raz1337:
I installed My Phone to backup while I get Energy working correctly, but I'm getting text messages from 129 throughout the day now. like:

//VVM:SYNC:ev=NM;id=195;c=1;t=v;s=8772980939;dt=15/07/2010 23:25 - 0400;l=23

//VVM:SYNC:ev=MBU

What is that? Is that from My Phone? How do I stop them?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] edwill44:
Nope, those are from your Visual VMail. Install and setup Visual VMail and they will Stop....
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jacklad:
May be a silly questions, but in trying the various ROMs, I've noticed that the People widget in the Sprint roms seem to work properly, saving the default dialing info once set, where the Verizon based roms widget won't save those settings.

Is there a way to extract the sprint based widget and replace the Verizon one?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Izeltokatl:
I dont use sense anymore, but im sure this app works fine. It has some neat features.

Scrollable Contacts Widget

http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-boombuler-widgets-contacts-jimmE.aspx
[Droid Eris Android Development] zwade01:
That app looks cool, but it didn't work for me. It just kept saying, "loading"
[HTC Aria General] jdm_labrat:
please help i have tried to read everything looked everywhere and i cant not get past the loop it doesnt find my device have tried multiple sd cards and still cant get it please help me

yahoo im: jdm_labrat
[HTC Aria General] sd73ta:
did you try this its the only way that worked for me. If you dont have Ubuntu you can create a live usb (youll need two usb ports to do this)

Or try the this I personally havent tried this but its worth a shot
[HTC Aria General] mosamjc:
Try the second SD card inject trick to force recover

The trick is outline here hxxp://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-714224.html and can be used in conjunction with PC or Mac using a second card formatted in HFS+ Journaled or NTFS. Sounds hard but I got recovery on first try with this method. If you are still getting permission errors when trying to push files, you may just try formatting the card with the phone itself (which goes against traditional wisdom). This worked for me using Clockwork with attn's prerooted Liberated_Aria rom.
[HTC Aria General] corolla90:
do u have debugging on in settings? that was the problem i had
[HTC Aria General] Joesalad21:
Just use the unrevoked app.